Once Upon A Country

As a child growing up in East Jerusalem, the world puzzled Sari Nusseibeh: the prosaic co-existed too closely with the mythical and sacred whilst the political world seemed to him ever-changing and incomprehensible. The young Nusseibeh revelled in the city''s rich past. He played in the streets of his beloved Old City which were steeped not only in the histories of the three great religions but al...